Team USA was the heavy favorites to win the Men's Basketball tournament, and today it went onto making records in its Nigeria 156-73 win against Nigeria. What's more impressive about the score, particularly putting it into perspectives for American fans used to the NBA style, is that the Olympics games are only 40 minutes long in regulation, as opposed to the 48 in NBA. Keeping the constant ratio, the 156 points would've translated to 156 / 40 * 48 = 187.2 points over a 48-minute period.
The NBA record for the most number of points in one game is 186, scored by Detroit against Denver in 1983. Furthermore, that game went into the third overtime period. Detroit won 186-184, as the teams combined for 370 points, another NBA record. The margin of victory from today's game (83) also shattered the NBA record of 68. The NBA record for the fewest number of points in a game of the modern era is 49, recorded by Chicago in 1999. That is nearly only a quarter of (specific factor difference of 3.82) the number of points Team USA scored today, by using the projected score over 48 minutes.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
2012 Olympics Athlete Rate Per Country Population
As athletes match into Olympics Stadium in London for the Opening Ceremony, here's a look into the number of athletes by country or territory. Specifically, which countries have the most and least number of athletes, per population of the country? A report by Guardian has compiled the raw data of the athletes for analysis.
The top countries of territories on the list of athletes per population are dominated by very small countries that send a few athletes. Atop the list of Cook Islands, an associated state of New Zealand located in the South Pacific. With 8 athletes representing its population of 10,777, according to CIA World Factbook as of July 2011, Cook Islands have one athlete representing around 1,350 people. At the bottom of the list is Bangladesh. With 5 athletes representing the country of more than 161 million people, that is a rate of over 32 million people per athlete. The factor of difference between the rate of Cook Island and that of Bangladesh is nearly 24,000.
Of the countries or territories on top of the per capita list, if a filter of 100,000+ population is enacted, Iceland tops the list. With 28 athletes for a population of over 300,000, the rate is over 11,000 people per athlete. When a filter of 1,000,000+ population is enacted, New Zealand tops the list. In comparison, the United States, with 534 athletes, has over 580,000 people per athlete.
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The top countries of territories on the list of athletes per population are dominated by very small countries that send a few athletes. Atop the list of Cook Islands, an associated state of New Zealand located in the South Pacific. With 8 athletes representing its population of 10,777, according to CIA World Factbook as of July 2011, Cook Islands have one athlete representing around 1,350 people. At the bottom of the list is Bangladesh. With 5 athletes representing the country of more than 161 million people, that is a rate of over 32 million people per athlete. The factor of difference between the rate of Cook Island and that of Bangladesh is nearly 24,000.
Of the countries or territories on top of the per capita list, if a filter of 100,000+ population is enacted, Iceland tops the list. With 28 athletes for a population of over 300,000, the rate is over 11,000 people per athlete. When a filter of 1,000,000+ population is enacted, New Zealand tops the list. In comparison, the United States, with 534 athletes, has over 580,000 people per athlete.
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/27/olympic-athletes-list-visualised
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cw.html
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Population Density Comparison: Manhattan and Greenland
When it comes to population density, Manhattan and Greenland represent the two extremities. Manhattan, with population nearing 1.6 million in slightly less than 23 square miles of land, the population density is 69,467.5 / square mile, according to the US Census Bureau. Now onto the other end, Greenland's land area is 2,166,086 square km, according to the CIA World Factbook. According to the same source, the latest population estimate is 57,695.
To first convert to the same units, Manhattan's population density is 26821.55 per square km. For Greenland, the same figure will be 57,695/2,166,086 = 0.0266355999 per square km. The difference then is 1,006,981.26 or 7 orders of magnitude. To put that into perspective, since Manhattan's population is 1.6 million, under Greenland's population density, slightly fewer than 1.6 people will be living in entire Manhattan. Wouldn't that solve the city's congestion issues?
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To first convert to the same units, Manhattan's population density is 26821.55 per square km. For Greenland, the same figure will be 57,695/2,166,086 = 0.0266355999 per square km. The difference then is 1,006,981.26 or 7 orders of magnitude. To put that into perspective, since Manhattan's population is 1.6 million, under Greenland's population density, slightly fewer than 1.6 people will be living in entire Manhattan. Wouldn't that solve the city's congestion issues?
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